South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott abruptly ends 2024 presidential bid, shocking even his campaign staff

[Dulcinea]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott abruptly announced late Sunday that he was dropping out of the 2024 race, a development that surprised his donors and stunned his campaign staff just two months before the start of voting in Iowa’s leadoff GOP caucuses.

The South Carolina senator, who entered the race in May with high hopes, made the surprise announcement on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Night in America” with Trey Gowdy, one of his closest friends. The news was so unanticipated that one campaign worker told The Associated Press that campaign staff found out Scott was dropping out by watching the show.

“I love America more today than I did on May 22,” Scott said Sunday. “But when I go back to Iowa, it will not be as a presidential candidate. I am suspending my campaign. I think the voters who are the most remarkable people on the planet have been really clear that they’re telling me, ‘Not now, Tim.’”

https://apnews.com/article/tim-scott-drops-out-2024-race-b9cc8fbeba57a123789d8d0484164e38

[keithbvadu2]

1. To spend more time with his girlfriend.

Where's Waldona?

[Dulcinea]

3. His beard? nt

[KG]

2. well, he made some bank for himself

good return since, like every other repub, he had nothing positive to offer this country

[tanyev]

4. Huh. And he just went to all that trouble to make the girlfriend magically appear.

Oh well.

[Deep State Witch]

5. I Guess His Strategy

To hire a white woman to be his girlfriend didn't work out the way he thought it would.

[sop]

9. Turns out miscegenation polls lower than suspected homosexuality with GOP primary voters.

[Deep State Witch]

10. Tim Scott

[Wild blueberry]

6. A few thoughts about why

1. Money dried up?
2. Oppo dirt about to drop?
3. Realizing maga is never, ever going to vote for someone Black? (Or Indian or female, unless she's Margaret Thatcher)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Bu-bye

[JoseBalow]

8. Republicans view running for office

as an income opportunity